Telephone attachhent



A. F. KLAUSCHIE.

TELEPHONE ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 24, I9l9.

Patented Sept. 16, 1919.

ARTHUR F. KLAuscmE,

V individuall UNITED STATES P TEnTom mm 1'. museums, or own, V

TELEPHONE ATTACHMENT.

Specification of letters Patent.

Application filed February 24, 1919. Serial m. aiaeor.

quire. ,It is the main object of the invention to render an attachment of this kind applicable to the stem and base of the ordinary transmitter stand in an easy-and adjustable manner; to fix the scratch-pad in an inclined positionconvenient to be written on;'to render an operative 'rtion, or

tablet, of the attachment availa le for the advantageous display of advertising matter telephone addresses, or other characters or: information impressed, v marked thereon; tofacilitate themanuiaw ture of the attachment and reduce the cost thereof, ,by stamping its body integrally: 30

from a single piece of sheet-metal; and in general to produce a simple and superior article of the specified class. To accomplish these objects I incorporate in my improved telephone attachment, asparts there-j of, a pan of spring arms adapted to hug the stem of the transmitter stand,*a'clasp extending from one of the arms-to holda pencil, a tablet extending vertically along the stem, and a pad-plate sloping from the tablet, all formed from a le sheet of metal, and provided with a s actuated resser-foot ivotally moun on the tablet.

In said rawmgs illustratingithe best manner in. which. :have contemplated applying the principlesofmy mvent1on,F1gure 1 is a va view; of a telephone attachment which is'constructcd. in accordt'el liedto tel'h d as opera 1v y app a epone, an as holding ascratch-"pad andpencil. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same attachment and the pad held thereby. Fig: 8.18 an mcomplete horizontal section of .the'same on the section line3-8 in Fig. 2. -Fig. 4 is a plan of the flat body of the attachment as stamped from apiece of sheet metal'and' printed, aflixed or these principles and is exhibited ready to be bended on the several broken P tented Sept. 16, 1919.

lines inthe process of manufacture. In this plan the several parts of the blank are denoted respectively *by the same numerals which denote the correspondin parts of the completed structure. in the ot er figures.

In this illustrative specimen ofmy 1nmention, the pad-plate is denoted by {the numeral 1. It bears contactuall upon vthe convex or conical top surface 0 the base 2 of the telephone'stand in a correspondingly mclmed or sloping position, and is slightly longer and wider than the scratch-pad 3 which lies flat thereon. l The vertically disposed tablet 4;;being an arm of the'platel,

contacts from endto end with a portion of i the stem 5 of the transmitter stand, and is;

fitted thereto. It -is operatively'securcdtof the stem by its opposing snap arms Band ,6'

length, which hu the stem and 1 of unequal arecircumferentially adjustab e thereon. 1 It 'ez'rtends along the side of the-stemabov e the levelof these anus, and thus not onla supplies on its exposed front side a la space for advertisements and the like w may be exhibited thereon, but also serves as a lever to' resist all tendency ofTthe-padlate to be tllted upward oraway vfrom the se 2 when the attachment, is in use in connection with a scratch'-'p;,|. 1,;. vsi il the arm 6 has a pair of eo-acting' spri'n fingers 8, whichform a clasp adapted to hdl out-of-the-way and obli often as may be desire a lead pencil or the like, convenient for use upon the scratch? din an ue pos1t1on,and as 3. This pad, which is severable leaf by 4 leaf along the brpken line 9, is held in its normal and dellne'ated 'position by I the Framer-foot 10, which may be manually fted by thetoe 11 to permit the normal placing of the pail; and this foo actuated by the spring 12, is. pivotedon t e pin 13 connecting the ears 14 of the tablet 4.

Such the construction andoperation of my improved telephone attachment, the sfime the several'o erative and man'- stated as constituting the main object of the invention. The entire attachment is adjustable rotari1y on the stand, about the dictatetithe superposition of immediately 4 upon the base '2, prevents the latter from bem by any' pressure which; ewriter mayexert upon advantages w ich were above "axisofthesta'ndto any anglfla Position ;whichthe-eonvenience'ofthefiperator may e pad platethe pad, and also counteracts all tendency of the tablet 4 to be tilted from the stem 5 by the same pressure; the location of the spring fingers 8 of the arm 6 at a distance from the junction of this arm with the tablet 4c, is facilitatai by the superior length of this arm as compared with the arm 6, and permits the pencil 8 to be inserted in the clasp in the oblique position shown, where it will not hide from view anything written on the pages of the scratch-pad; and the arrangement of parts which permits the padplate, the tablet 4c, the ears 14, the snap-arms 6 and 6, and the spring fingers 8, to be stamped integrally from a metallic sheet by a single operation, simplifies the construction of the device and lessens its cost of manufacture.

I claim as my invention:

1. A telephone attachment comprising a pad-plate fitted to rest upon the base of the telephone stand, a tablet contacting continuously with the stem of the stand, a pair of spring arms adapted to hug the stem, a penc11 clasp extending from one of the arms,

'all stamped from a single piece of sheet metal, and provided with a spring-actuated presser-foot for engaging a scratch-pad.

2. A telephone attachment comprisin a. plate for the support of a scratch-pa a tablet having a pair of ears and forming a vertical arm of the plate, a pair of snap arms of unequal length extending from the tablet to clasp the stem of the telephone stand, and a pencil clasp carried by the longer of saidsnap arms, all stamped from a single sheet of metal, in combination with a spring-actuated presser-foot pivoted to said ears.

Witness my signature at Omaha, Nebraska, February 21, 1919.

ARTHUR F. KLAUSCHIE. 

